Impatiens plant named &#39;imdosaor&#39;

ABSTRACT

A new  Impatiens  plant, characterised particularly as to novelty by an upright habit, freely branching, with large, double, salmon orange flowers, flowering above the foliage.

LATIN NAME OF THE GENUS AND SPECIES OF THE PLANT CLAIMED

Impatiens walleriana

VARIETAL DENOMINATION

‘Imdosaor’

BACKGROUND OF THE NEW PLANT

The present invention comprises a new distinct cultivar of Impatiens, botanically known as Impatiens walleriana.

The new Impatiens is a product of a planned breeding program conducted in Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The new Impatiens cultivar is upright growing, early flowering, floriferous with large, double flowers and has attractive foilage.

The present cultivar originated from a pollination made in 2001, of a proprietary Impatiens selection identified as ‘S3244-1,’ not patented, as the female, or seed parent, with a proprietary Impatiens selection identified as ‘S3163-1,’ not patented, as the male, or pollen parent.

The present cultivar has been repeatedly asexually reproduced by cuttings in Enkhuizen, Netherlands, in Angers, France, in Gilroy, USA over a four year period. The distinctive characters of this new Impatiens are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations of asexual reproduction. It takes 6 to 8 weeks to produce a finished plant, depending on the temperature.

This new Impatiens plant is an annual in most climatical zones in the US, only in zones 9 and 10 it is a perennial plant.

DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING

This new Impatiens plant is illustrated by the accompanying photographic drawing which shows blooms, buds and foliage of the plant in full color, the color showing being as true as can be reasonably obtained by conventional photographic procedures.

DESCRIPTION OF THE NEW CULTIVAR

The following detailed descriptions set forth the distinctive characteristics of this new Impatiens. The data which defines these characteristics were collected from asexual reproductions carried out in Enkhuizen, Netherlands. The plant history was taken on 25 week old plants, blossomed under natural light in the field.

Color readings were taken in the office under ambient light. Color references are primarily to the R.H.S. Color Chart of The Royal Horticultural Society of London.

Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from the plants of the female parent selection in the following characteristics:

Plants of the new Impatiens have orange, double flowers and flowers only have petals, whereas the plants of the female have orange flowers and flowers have a pollen cap and stigma.

Plants of the new Impatiens differ primarily from the male plant selection in the following characteristics:

Plants of the new Impatiens have orange colored flowers, whereas the plants of the male have salmon colored flowers. TABLE 1 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NEW CULTIVAR ‘IMDOSAOR’ AND A SIMILAR CULTIVAR ‘Salmon Sunrise’ (U.S. Plant Patent ‘Imdosaor’ No. 9,691) Leaf color Dark green Medium green Flower size Large Smaller Number of petals Very high number Normal number PARENTAGE Female parent: ‘S3244-1,’ not patented Male parent: ‘S3163-1,’ not patented PROPAGATION Type cutting: Terminal cuttings Time to initiate roots: 10-12 days at 20 degrees C. Time to produce a 4 weeks rooted cutting: Root description: Fine, fibrous and white in color PLANT DESCRIPTION General appearance: Compact, mounded and outwardly spreading. Appropriate for 12 cm pots and large containers Growth and Upright growing plant habit, well branching habit: branched Crop time: 6-8 weeks, starting from an unrooted cutting in a 10.5 cm pot Plant height: 12 cm Plant diameter or spread: 44.5 cm LATERAL BRANCHES Length: About 21 cm Diameter: About 5 mm Internode length: About 2 cm Texture: Smooth Color: 146D Anthocyanin may be present: 59B FOLIAGE DESCRIPTION Arrangement: Simple, alternate Length: About 4.6 cm Width: About 2.7 cm Shape: Ovate Apex: Acuminate Base: Attenuate Margin: Serrate, rounded Texture: Glabrous, smooth Venation pattern: Pinnate, arcuate Color, developing and 137A fully expanded foliage, upper surface: Color, developing and 147C fully expanded foliage, lower surface: Venation, upper and 137C lower surfaces: Petiole, length: About 2.1 cm Petiole, diameter: About 2 mm Color: 49D with green FLOWER DESCRIPTION Flower type and Numerous and consistently large fully flowering habit: double flowers. Freely and continuously flowering. Flower buds open similar to a rose in fullness; flowers rounded. Flowers arise from leaf axils. Typically about 24 flowers and flower buds per lateral branch. Flowers positioned above and beyond the foliage and typically face outward. Flowers last about five to seven days under greenhouse conditions. Flowers not persistent. Flowers not fragrant. Flowering season: Year round under greenhouse conditions. In the garden, flowering is continuous from Spring until Fall. Flower size Diameter: About 4 cm Depth: About 2 cm FLOWER BUDS Length, at stage for About 1.2 cm showing color: Diameter, at stage About 10 mm for showing color: Shape: Ovoid Color: 55D PETALS Quantity/arrangement: About 40 per flower; imbricate Length, outer petals: About 2.4 cm Width, outer petals: About 1.9 cm Shape: Oval to obovate Apex: Emarginate to retuse Base: Shortly attenuate Margin: Entire Texture, upper and lower Velvety, smooth surfaces: Color When opening, upper 40A surface: When opening, lower 43D surface: Fully opened, upper 40A surface: Fully opened, lower 43D surface: SPURS Length: About 2.3 cm Color: N144D SEPALS Quantity/arrangement: Five in a single whorl Calyx length: About 3 mm Calyx diameter: About 2 mm Shape: Elliptic Apex: Acute Margin: Entire Texture, upper and Smooth lower surfaces: Color Upper surface: 145A Lower surface: 145A PEDUNCLES Length: About 2.1 cm Diameter: About 2 mm Angle: About 45 degrees to the lateral branch Strength: Moderately strong Color: 152C REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS None observed SEED/FRUIT DEVELOPMENT Seed and fruit development has not been observed 

1. A new and distinct cultivar of Impatiens plant named ‘Imdosaor,’ as substantially illustrated and described herein. 